Top Ten Books on my Spring TBR

The Baileys Women’s Prize longlist was announced last week. And it turns out that I’ve read four of the books on it (Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins; Cynthia Bond’s Ruby; Attica Locke’s Pleasantville; Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life). Of course I had to add the rest to my TBR list. And the Man Booker International longlist was also announced recently. I’ve only read Han Kang’s The Vegetarian so all of the rest are on my TBR list!

Shirley Barrett: Rush Oh!

Geraldine Brooks: The Secret Chord

Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Jackie Copleton: A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

Rachel Elliott: Whispers Through a Megaphone

Anne Enright: The Green Road

Petina Gappah: The Book of Memory

Vesna Goldsworthy: Gorsky

Clio Gray: The Anatomist’s Dream

Melissa Harrison: At Hawthorn Time

Lisa McInerney: The Glorious Heresies

Elizabeth McKenzie: The Portable Veblen

Sara Nović: Girl at War

Julia Rochester: The House at the Edge of the World

Hannah Rothschild: The Improbability of Love

Elizabeth Strout: My Name is Lucy Barton (I own this one!)

Man Booker International

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (Italy), translated by Ann Goldstein

The Vegetarian by Han Kang (South Korea), translated by Deborah Smith

Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal (France), translated by Jessica Moore

Gosh, I haven’t read nearly enough of these. Only The Vegetarian, in fact. I have lots of the Bailey’s Prize books on my want list. I just listened to the latest episode of The Readers where Simon and Eric worked through and talked about all of the titles. They’re going to try to read them all in the next four weeks or so, which is crazy but fun to listen to! lol